FreeGameDev

Because of the way it's held with the players hand in the back directly behind it, it look to me like the rocket launcher would break the wrist of the person who fired it due to the recoil if it was done that way in real life. Perhaps it would be better to design it so that it's held over the shoulder.

Or held from behind like now, but with two hands, pulling off an almost hadouken like attack.

If we're going to go in the way of small and handheld...why not make it wrist mounted? I imagine a long, tube-like object with two braces, one strapping to the wrist, and the other to the upper forearm, a little below the elbow. The back end of the launcher stretches past the elbow a bit, letting the end of the barrel clear contact from the users' body from the backblast, while the front end of the barrel would extend far about a half a foot past the users' knuckles when a fist is made.

In all honesty, I don't know how that would help the recoil effect on the body, but it would look pretty neat compared to the jar-looking rocket launcher we've got now. A few problems I imaged would be the barrel effectively hitting the user in the head when swinging his arm a certain way, or if he were aiming downward, the end of the barrel would also hit is head, and possibly launch the backblast into his face or something.

Meh. I gave it a try.